Soup’s On! Hot & Sour Soup

There’s nothing like cool weather to make me want soup!

On a sidenote–I’m curious if anyone out there in blogland has experience with home pickling (of pickles, OF COURSE)? I am planning on doing some next week and will post my experience, but I’d love to hear what experiences, if any, others have!

Today we had some garden grown vegetable beef soup and wow–especially with a couple dashes of tabasco–was it delicious!! This is another fantabulous soup we had a little while back. It’s an easy recipe that is a definite tummy pleaser. For those wary of cooking with alcohol, the cooking sherry in this recipe really adds depth but if you try it without let me know how it is! I’m sure it’s not a deal-breaker. Make sure to have all your ingredients next to the stove again because things get added in fairly quickly, and watch out for the white pepper! That can really spice things up–no joke! Also, I found that fresh mushrooms really work best for this recipe, and if you have to use dried, instead of soaking them in water to rehydrate, soak them in the sherry!

4 days agoby TheSpicyBeeLet’s pause for a moment as I would like to call out my main squeeze Ktams for really going above and beyond recently. *** A few weeks ago our fridge bit the big one at the young age of 4 yrs old. Distraught, we salvaged what we could from the fridge and began the stress inducing process of deciding whether we spend the money on a repair person coming out (that we had deduced would cost nearly as much as replacing the fridge) or coming up with about 1.5K to replace it. He came up with an option C which